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3.12 Special Attributes 
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The implementation adds a few special read-only attributes to several
object types, where they are relevant.  Some of these are not reported
by the <tt class="function">dir()</tt> built-in function.

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<dl><dt><b><tt id='l2h-334' xml:id='l2h-334' class="member">__dict__</tt></b></dt>
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A dictionary or other mapping object used to store an
object's (writable) attributes.
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<dl><dt><b><tt id='l2h-335' xml:id='l2h-335' class="member">__methods__</tt></b></dt>
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<div class="versionnote"><b>Deprecated since release 2.2.</b>
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<dl><dt><b><tt id='l2h-337' xml:id='l2h-337' class="member">__class__</tt></b></dt>
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The class to which a class instance belongs.
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<dl><dt><b><tt id='l2h-338' xml:id='l2h-338' class="member">__bases__</tt></b></dt>
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The tuple of base classes of a class object.  If there are no base
classes, this will be an empty tuple.
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<dl><dt><b><tt id='l2h-339' xml:id='l2h-339' class="member">__name__</tt></b></dt>
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The name of the class or type.
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